Two nights in #SLOCAL

It's been a grueling operation but "Mission Accomplished". While the AO was a pastoral dreamscape, there were no foreign agents, just cows with attitudes @DevinCow, and the normal operational WTFs.

As I sit here eating a gas station burrito, my body bruised from the fight, I feel more like Jack Ryan than James Bond. So, now to reconsider rewarding myself with local grapes, or a martini...shaken not stirred.

Companies say Elon Musk's plan to charge $1,000 for month for Twitter checkmarks is 'outlandish' and makes them 'meaningless' https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-say-elon-musk-plan-charge-twitter-checkmark-outlandish-2023-3

One of Wall Street's favorite politicians is trying to kick the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau off the FDIC board and replace them with a former bank employee.

Wall Street doesn't want anyone to protect you from corporations.

https://perfectunion.us/republican-bill-would-kick-consumer-advocate-off-fdic-board/

@Gerry
Mmmm yah!

Nashville shooting: Police give new updates https://www.youtube.com/live/KuqO5GQ4Hes

@Gerry i was just going to make the point the author made at the end...wait till all the hs football stars don't want to attend 'ol miss or florida/texas schools & their ability to raise $ & prestige thru sport goes down the toilet. then maybe they'll care. that may take a while. & chances are, they'll throw $ at the problem...which, let's face it. if they're white, male cis, het athletes, the full ride & fin incentives would be easier to accept when their rights aren't the ones being shit on.

'We're going to beat up the gay kid': Teen killed near Murdaugh estate was hate crime victim, lawyer says https://www.rawstory.com/lawyer-for-stephen-smith-s-family-thinks-he-was-the-victim-of-a-hate-crime/

PaulMay.Patriot @PaulMaypatriot

Hey @GOP, Nashville is on YOU. Again. Fuck you!

#PeopleOverProfits #EducationMatters #TaxTheRich #CancelStudentLoanDebt #EndCorruptCorporatePoliticalCronyism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHTb5N6Yw4

#EndCorruptCorporatePoliticalCronyism #ProgressivesUnite #WorkersUnite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVUljq1ges

out for the rest of the day

play nice

Aurora display on a webcam at the Northernmost point of Shetland.
https://www.shetlandwebcams.com/cliff-cam-3/

"The Star Trek episode when the Enterprise went back in time and made first contact with the alien species that would rule the Earth."

Now it's raining so hard I can hardly see outside. Thunder too. 😬

Even the NYPD views MAGA as a terrorist threat—and they are right. https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/even-the-nypd-views-maga-as-a-terrorist

Banning Books But Not Guns—What the Hell Are We Doing? https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/republican-legislation-book-bans-censorship

The war on drag shows, by @JuddLegum https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/the-war-on-drag-shows

Right-wing host calls for military to execute Obama if Trump is indicted https://www.salon.com/2023/03/20/right-wing-host-calls-for-military-to-execute-obama-if-is-indicted/